1. Legislative Assembly

Section 5 of RPA, 1951 requires that

(a) In order to contest a seat reserved for the Scheduled Castes or for the Scheduled Tribes of that State or Union Territory, he must be a member of any of those castes or of those tribes, as the case may be, and must be an elector for any Assembly constituency in that State or Union Territory;

(b) In order to contest a seat reserved for an autonomous district of Assam, he must be a member of a Scheduled Tribe of any autonomous district and must be an elector for the Assembly constituency in which such seat or any other seat is reserved for that district; and

(c) In order to contest any other seat, he must be an elector for any Assembly constituency in that State or Union Territory.

(d) In order to be qualified to be chosen to fill any seat allocated to the Tuensang district in the Legislative Assembly of Nagaland for the period referred to in clause (2) of Article 371A, he must be a member of the regional council referred to in that article.